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Term Of The Hour

price gap-up: Original post by Slav Fedorov of Demand Media The closing stock price is the last recorded trade of the day that gets reported in stock tables and daily stock quotes and is used in some daily stock charts. Many professional investors and traders finalize their stock positions in the last hour of trading. Their action often determines the closing stock price and may be indicative of their sentiment…

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